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MESSTHETICS #104: South Wales D.I.Y. (I)

MESSTHETICS #104 CD: 'D.I.Y.' and indie postpunk from the South Wales and the Z-Block scene: 1977-1981 (part 1)

By the end of 1977 years of music-industry neglect (and the abrupt departure for London of the few feckless punks who’d landed record-deals) had left
South Wales fertile ground for D.I.Y. The most basic instrumentation, one-take recordings and black-and-white graphics ruled the day, so it's no surprise that not one of the records here sold more than 1200 copies... Mindful of these feeble sales, a dozen alumni of Cardiff's Z-Block label (and various mates) gave up releasing records altogether, and busied them-selves in a frenzy of increasingly-sophisticated home recording. (We've included just the tip of that iceberg...)